Synthetic Production of Gasoline
WEBMar 9, 2016 · Synthetic Production of Gasoline. In 1944, bombers destroyed this synthetic fuel refinery at Zeitz, Germany, just south of Leipzig, which had produced liquid fuel from locally available brown coal since 1938. In 1955, apartheid South Africa began to experiment with the FischerTropsch coaltoliquid process, and greatly increased its .